Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture Of Extreme Speech

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The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures. Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Hate Cultures in the Digital Age: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech / Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, and Peter Hervik Part 1. Extreme Speech as Critique—Power and Agonism 1. There’s No Such Thing as Hate Speech and It’s a Good Thing, Too / David Boromisza-Habashi 2. The Political Trolling Industry in Duterte’s Philippines: Everyday Work Arrangements of Disinformation and Extreme Speech / Jonathan Corpus Ong 3. It’s Incivility, Not Hate Speech: Application of Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory to Analysis of Nonanthropocentric Agency / David Katiambo 4. The Moral Economy of Extreme Speech: Resentment and Anger in Indian Minority Politics / Max Kramer Part 2. Colloquialization of Exclusion 5. Us and (((Them))): Extreme Memes and Antisemitism on 4chan / Marc Tuters and Sal Hagen 6. Nationalism in the Digital Age: Fun as a Metapractice of Extreme Speech / Sahana Udupa 7. A Presidential Archive of Lies: Racism, Twitter, and a History of the Present / Carole McGranahan 8. Racialization, Racism, and Antiracism in Danish Social Media Platforms / Peter Hervik 9. Follow the Memes: On the Construction of Far-Right Identities Online / Amy C. Mack 10. The Politics of Muhei: Ethnic Humor and Islamophobia on Chinese Social Media / Gabriele de Seta 11. Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean Meme Humor / Nell Haynes Part 3. Organization and Disorganization 12. Blasphemy Accusations as Extreme Speech Acts in Pakistan / Jürgen Schaflechner 13. Localized Hatred: The Importance of Physical Spaces within the German Far-Right Online Counterpublic on Facebook / Jonas Kaiser 14. “Motherhood” Revisited: Pushing Boundaries in Indonesia’s Online Political Discourse / Indah S. Pratidina 15. Networks of Political Trolling in Turkey after the Consolidation of Power under the Presidency / Erkan Saka Contributor Biographies Index